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The madness of Mary Lincoln

Title

The madness of Mary Lincoln / Jason Emerson.

Author

Emerson, Jason, 1975-

Publication

Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, c2007.

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xiii, 255 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-250) and index.

Contents

Much like an April day -- A most painful time of anxiety -- No right to remain upon earth -- Of unsound mind -- Mrs. Lincoln admitted today -- It does not appear that God is good -- No more insane than I am -- A deeply wronged woman -- Resignation will never come -- To be destroyed immediately -- Epilogue -- Appendix 1 : unpublished Mary Todd Lincoln letters -- Appendix 2 : legal documents pertaining to the sale and destruction of the Mary Lincoln insanity letters -- Appendix 3 : the psychiatric illness of Mary Lincoln / James S. Brust, M.D.

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